Not to get too philosophical about it, but I think the question is flawed. I will start by making clear that the emphasis of my answer is on the ‘A’ in the title.
What does ‘One’ mean exactly? Does it point to an individual? I don’t think so. Numbers (like God) aren’t tangible. They are concepts. They make it easy to grasp reality. They have no independent ‘existence’ of their own.
Even what we call an individual isn’t really one. A person is made of cells and cells are made of molecules. It is energy that holds it all together. But this doesn’t make you or me any less tangible than we are. It is just that we have both agreed to perceive each other as individuals.
Look at the world around you. How you define it depends entirely on you. You can see it as ‘one world’ if you want to, or you can choose to see it as a bunch of disparate entities. It can appear as one family to you, or a collection of hostile nations at odds with each other. You may want to see the world as home to billions of individuals. You could even choose to see it as an enormous cloud of energy holding together a whole lot of particles, giving them the semblance of our physical world.
The point I am trying to make is that the world, or reality, isn’t objective. It is an interpretation. Each one of us lives in his own world. The nature of each of our worlds depends on our own respective natures.
So the existence of God, quite like the existence of peace or harmony or hatred or violence, depends on you. If you do not believe in the existence of God, it is not because of lack of proof. It is because you don’t want to.
Precise, persuasive and to the point!! Well, it doesn’t need harangue to deliver but few words which can pierce through are really good! Thanks for posting and keep up the good work!!
A very well written post! To the sharp point. But I wanna ask you, why should I believe in the concept of God, if that concept actually clashes with the concept peace and harmony? Violence is not a concept, it’s what everyone is busy calling bad Karma of others, while no one blames there own karma. To have God as a concept is weird! Cos there lot more attached to it which we can’t ingnore, cos we live in a society filled with it!
Th the part of your question that asks “why should I?”, my answer is that there is no should. You shouldn’t if you don’t want to.
Secondly, my God concept does not clash with peace and harmony. Some people’s does. You have your own God concept. Violence, like everything else, is what you make of it. You see it as something destructive. Some others see it as important. Still others accept it as inevitable.
Choose the world as building blocks. Build your own God concept. Don’t feel obliged to abide by set definitions.
Very well written post. I like your God Concept.
Cultural riots (Violence) create a lot of destruction in the name of GOD. I believe those who are involved in such violence dont attempt to witness GOD in his true nature. They fight over stories & books written long ago and were passed on to the further generations in the name of religion.
While violence is not desirable to most of us, it is very important for the some activists as you rightly pointed out.The most difficult task in the world is to change the mindset of an ignorant, who has cornered himself to something. Though attempts towards reducing terrorism are good, i feel will never be completely successful. Many civilizations have perished in the past, and ours will be no different. Terrorism might be a tool that facilitates the fall of final curtain.
Few days back, i was reading about different versions of Ramayana and watching the movie 10,000 BC which is supposed to be the hollywood version of Ramayana. If the Egyptian version of Ramayana is true, the fights over Babri Masjid make no sense. If people realized GOD and universality as described in the post, this world would be a perfect place.
But, that will never happen because the world and especially its smart inhabitants weren’t designed that way.
We make such fuss about religion and create violence because we are humans. Animals dont have this problem. They relate to nature very well and sometimes i doubt, they are so silent because they think that the noise we human beings create, through ‘modernization’ and ‘social & Cultural development’ is just useless
True , World does run on interpretation. However interpretation is always backed up by proof. Newton’s interpretation of gravity was backed by proof in his time. He was ofcourse wrong and again proven so by Einstien’s interpretation. Einstein is not one of the greates thinker because his tjoughts were great , he was because his thoughts and ideas were backed up by proof. Same is with God ; one or a billion , does not matter. Whether there is proof of God or not will prove his existence. Not any wild theories scientific religious or otherwise. Santa Clause as a concept does not clash with peace or harmony . That does not make it true or false. Proof does and it does not depend on the believer or disbeliever.
Newton’s theory was never proven. Nor was Einstein’s. They were merely taken as bases to make further assumptions. Einstein was not great because he had proof. He was great because he had the imagination to go beyond the confines of stark utilitarian mathematics of his time. It can also be called faith — faith in something beyond what he could see.